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Elias Weiss Friedman is a 26-year-old man who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and takes pictures of dogs for a living. Beautiful, human-esque pictures of dogs. Elias Weiss Friedman is The Dogist.

A year and a half ago he was working for brand consultancy giant Siegel + Gale, but after a round of layoffs and stints at a few start-ups, he decided to "do something dog-related." He started a web series call "Barking at Dogs," and began posting portraits of the dogs on his Instagram.

"People cared more about the dogs than anything about me on there," he tells me, so he started The Dogist, a street style blog for dogs.

"I shoot maybe three days a week," says Weiss Friedman. "I go out fully geared up. I wear volleyball kneepads under my pants so I don't look like a total freak." He never knows who he's going to run across. He once accidentally shot Piney, Ira Glass's famously bad dog, and didn't know it until his site's traffic started spiking.

He's shot other famous dogs too. "I met Tuna once, and I shot Marnie at a BarkBox event," he says. "I hung out with Marnie last night, actually."

Weiss Friedman looks for dogs with attitude, but the secret to his piercing photographs is simple: "I walk around with a squeak toy."